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Unpacked my OSD today and set it up ok. Here's what I found:
1. Plugged in my 160gb drive in a USB enclosure, the unit recognized the USB device but would not display any files or folders.
2. Plugged in a flash drive, it sees the files on this device. Tried opening a jpg, the unit goes black then reboots.
3. Tried to view an .avi file, device reads for a while then reboots.
4. Tried to playback a wmv file from the flash drive, it plays the sound but not the video.
5. Tried recording to the flash drive, both in economy and normal modes, both unwatchable. Playback on my PC of these files also unwatchable.

It has the latest firmware loaded but having used a lot of multimedia devices, mostly on computers with high and low end hardware, IMHO it is not going to matter how many firmware updates this thing gets it is just not powerful enough to be able to do what is required. To capture and playback video requires some power under the hood and from what I've seen so far this device does not have it.

Hopefully I'll be proved wrong. I will hang on to it long enough to see how the next firmware upgrades effect it, but at the moment the 60 day return policy is looking good.

Well, the hardware contains custom chips so I think the power will be there. That a lot of stuff is not working yet, however, is very true.

Gave it a second shot tonight. Formatted a hard drive as fat32 and used a USB adaptor to plug it into the device. Now I can see the movies on the drive.  The files I tested were divx movies. They started to play but it wasn't smooth, it was like watching a movies at only 15 fps instead of 30, motion was jerky. I tried to fast forward the movie and then it lost sync, badly. All the movies were the same.

You may be right, maybe it does have a good enough processor, maybe it is just the fact that the USB bus cannot stream data fast enough. But lets face it, if you're intending to use this device seriously there are only 2 options to store data, either on a USB hard drive or on a network. So far it looks like USB is out and there isn't any option yet to stream over a network.

So I guess it is up to the programmers to see if they can pull this one out of the fire.

Hi, Rickybee,

Please re-check the issues with new firmware(3.25-0.23).
please upload the upgrade file via following link.
http://open.neurostechnology.com/taxonomy/term/28 (http://open.neurostechnology.com/taxonomy/term/28)
new firmware will let OSD work stable.Thanks

Caven

Great, looking forward to it. I'll try and get to it tonight after work. If I could just see a basic feature such as playing a movie file off a USB connected HD, with smooth playback and being able to fwd and rev without losing sync I'd be much happier. This would prove that the hardware can do it. Personally I like divx and that is how my movie collection is stored so the device has to be able to steam the compressed data over that usb port and have a processor capable of decompressing and playing the file.
This, IMHO, is a basic requirement, if it can't do that then....

I've only had half an hour or so to play with it this evening but preliminary tests show a definate improvement. I have 2 newer divx files on the HD, the first played ok, I fast forwarded a bit and it stayed in sync (much better) but when I kicked it into reverse then back to play it lost it again. Both of these files are widescreen, the first file played correctly but the second stretched to more than the screens height (not 16:9 but more like 4:4), it was a bit jerky but managed to stay in sync as well as the first file.
I recorded a 5 min test in fine mode, playing back the first time the unit rebooted about 2 minutes in. But after the reboot it played through ok. Again the screen was a little jumpy, and missed some frames here and there, but it was better than before.
I have a network cable plugged in and it picks up the DHCP info just fine. I have not seen any of the constant rebooting some of the others are reporting.
That's all I have for now but it has been nice to be able to report something a little more positive now. If I find out anything more I'll let you all know.

We're definately seeing big improvements internally, although I think calling it stable is still a little optimistic, but we are getting there.   Now most of my files play (speaking personally) but there is still a random bug that crashes the unit while playing from 5 minutes to 1 hour, it seems to happen on a variety of files.  Recording is improved but still needs further work.  The chipset is plenty powerful to do as good a job at MPEG-4 recording as any hardware, but we're not quite there with the OSD yet.